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0. G. NORLIN'K; P. LINDSTROM.

' CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

No. 518,621. Patented Apr. 24,1894.

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CHARLES GUSTAVUS NORLIN AND FRANK LINDSTROM, OF MARQUETTE,

KANSAS.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,621, dated April 24!, 1 894.

Application filed July 13, 1893- Serial No. 430,488. (No model.) i

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,'OHARLEs GUSTAVUS NoRLIN and FRANK LINDSTROM, both of Marquette, in the county of McPherson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improved support for clothes lines, which are extended in the open air for the reception of laundered or other goods, that are to be dried 0r renovated by an exposure to air currents and the heat of the sun; and has for its objects, to provide a novel, simple and eflicient device of the character indicated, which will be easy to erect and very convenient in use, afiording means to readily place the clothing or other articles upon the line, stretch the line taut, and dispense with the use of line props.

To these ends our invention consists in the construction and combinations of parts, as is hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 isa side view of the improvement in position for the support of the articles to be dried. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device adjusted for the convenient placing of goods on the line; and Fig. 3 is a detached view of a detail of construction of the improvement.

The line A, is of the kind usually employed for the designated purpose, and is of sufficient length for effective service. Preferably, two posts B, are provided for the sup.- port of the clothes line A, and are planted in the ground at a proper distance apart.

The line A is secured at one end to one of the posts 13, and is thence extended to and passed over a pulley a, carried by a bracket .frame a secured to the opposite post, the

bracket frame being so located that the pulley is at about the same height from the ground as the point Where the line A, is affixed to the other post B.

The posts B, are of such aheight, that when the line A is stretched taut thereon, said line will be elevated considerably from the ground, so as to freely expose the articles placed on it to the sun and air.

To conveniently stretch the line A, a weight b, is secured to the end that has been passed through the bracket frame 0. and over the pulley a, so as to allow the weight to hang pendent, the weight nearly reaching the ground when the line is adjusted as shown in Fig. 1.

Before the line A is arrangedas has been explained, two similar pieces or link bars 0, are placed upon it, eye-holes 0 being produced in the lower ends of the bars and loose pulleys c at their upper ends to permit a loose engagement to be effected. The length of the bars 0 is so proportioned to the height given to the taut line A, that the lower portion of each link bar will be within the reach of a person desiring to grasp the same.

When the device is to be used as a support for laundered or other goods, the bars 0, are drawn downwardly by the operator, and their lower ends made to engage the hooks d, that are secured in the postsB, at a proper dis tance from the ground, which adjustment of parts will depress the line A, so that its major portion will belocated in a plane nearer the ground, and convenient for the placing of material on it that isto be exposed to the sun and air, a release of the link bars at their ends permitting the weight T9,. to stretch the line and elevate the loaded portion of the same into the position shown in Fig. 1.

It will be evident that where there are two opposite building walls with a suificient open space between them, or two parallel fences of a suitable height and degree of separation, the posts B, may be dispensed with, and one end of the line A, secured to one end of these upright stable supports, and thence extended toward the other fence or wall, whereon the bracket-frame a, is secured which loosely sustains the pulley a; which pulley the line may be caused to engage as before mentioned, and the weight b, employed to adjust the line as has been described, thus effecting the same result as if the posts B, were used.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with a line fast to a support at one end, and loosely sustained at the other end, of a Weight on the free end of the line, pieoesen gaging the Line intermediately of its supports, and means to hold the line depressedwith said pieces, substantially as described.

f 2. The combinationQwith a linefast at one lend toa support, and pendent near its other end on a rotatable pulley held toan opposite:-

support, and a Weight on'the pendent end of said line, of link bars loose on the line, and hooks on the supports, below the line, adapted to engage thelower ends of the link bars when said bars are depressed, substantially, 1

as described.

3. The combination, with two posts, a line fast by one end to one of saidh posts, a bi-aek- "15 rated pulley on the other post loosely engaged by the line that hangs therefrom, and a weight on the pendent end ofthe line, of twollink bars having eyesat their lower ends and loose,

lpulleysat their upper endsthatare strong on I zoo: ,the line, and two hooks on theposts that the;

bars will engage when drawn downwardly,v substantially as described. 7 CHARLES GUSTAVUS NORLIN. I "FRANK LINDSTROM. -i

'Witnesses:

0; S. ELLVIN,

- W. C. MCCORMICK. 

